In the Associated Press, Craig Noble discusses the benefits of California’s newest bill providing incentives encouraging communities to grow smartly and in ways that reduce their environmental impact… In New York Times’ Green Inc blog, the writer notes that a moratorium on what NRDC calls “the dirtiest fuel on the planet,” oil shale, has expired; in the piece Wesley Warren emphasizes that oil shale development—a practice which in essence involves cooking rocks in order to obtain a relatively small amount of oil— was a bad idea years ago and is still a horrible idea now…Karen Wayland legislative director for NRDC, joined Air America’s Ring of Fire last weekend to talk about the lackluster energy bills currently being debated by Congress … Jessica Lass tells readers of a Reuters article on recent emissions reducing regulations at the California ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles that “the ports will see a 50 percent reduction (in truck emissions) overnight,” when the regulations go into place… Adrianna Quintero talks about greening life in Latino communities and NRDC’s La Onda Verde initiative in the San Antonio Express News.